Word: slaughter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Crossing Roads. A massive slaughter campaign to halt the spread of the disease, which affects almost all hooved animals, has turned Britain's prize stock farms into scenes of tragic carnage. Squads of soldiers, equipped with captive-bolt pistols and high-power rifles, have been killing cattle in infected areas as fast as they can shoot. More than 280,000 cows, bulls, sheep and pigs have already been slaughtered. Tractors pull the piles of carcasses to massive graves, and the pyres of burning animals nightly throw their smoke into the Shropshire sky. Soldiers and airmen have sprayed thousands...
...tried to keep his men in line, but without much success. Ragtag recruits who "mop up" after Gowon's armies have joined local tribesmen brandishing machetes and cutlasses in "Ibo hunts." In the Midwest, they rounded up thousands of Ibo and marched them into the bush for slaughter...
...Turkish troops set foot on Cyprus, warned the Greeks, it would not only mean war with Greece but would inevitably start a slaughter of Turkish Cypriots that no number of Turkish soldiers would be able to prevent. Yet so great was the public pressure in Turkey on Premier Demirel for quick action that the Greeks themselves despaired that the warning could halt the train of events. Athens stopped broadcasting weather bulletins so that the Turkish air force could not use them to plot bombing missions. Reports from Turkey said that the invasion fleet was waiting only for the onset...
...almost sacrificial slaughter of sheep climaxes their misery. After that, one woman is able to recreate the party up to the lost moment. This time everybody seizes the moment, goes free. Unfortunately, as Bunuel shows, such trails will recur. People go merrily to church--out of which, at the end of services, they make a new cage. Sheep troop in; another cycle of suffering begins...
...filthy conditions existing in the nation's meat-packing plants, led to passage of the 1906 Meat Inspection Act. Still in force, the act requires the Department of Agriculture to inspect every red-meat animal whose carcass moves in interstate commerce -both before and after slaughter. Trouble is, 15% of the slaughtered animals and 25% of the processed meat do not cross state lines and thus escape federal regulation. Policing of this meat is left to the states, but only 29 have mandatory meat-inspection laws, and most of those are considered inadequate by the U.S. Department of Agriculture...